News

Moving on

Poor old Louis Walsh. While his X Factor co-panellists are both on the move, the Mayo-born pop svengali still has no takers for his £965,000 (€1.4m) Philippe Starck-designed London pad in the Yoo building in St John’s Wood. Walsh put the apartment on the market last April for £1.1m, and has already reduced the price twice. Meanwhile, his nemesis Simon Cowell has shelled out about €7m on a Beverly Hills home. Reports suggested that Cowell had bought the house next door to the Osbournes’ and that Sharon would rather sell up than live beside Mr Nasty. So it can’t be long before there’s speculation that she’s moving to Ireland to concentrate on the career of the X Factor semi-finalist Tabby, who lives in Sligo.

Despite his new-found image as a hard-fighting, empire-building soldier king in Alexander, it seems Colin Farrell, right, with all his millions, still relies on his good